PUB00068

• Year: 1952
• Title: A Hundred Years of Irrigatioin in Colorado, 100 Years of Organized and Continuous Irrigation
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Irrigation history of Colorado
• Publications - Doc Type: Historical

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Program of Irrigation Centennial
at Alamosa

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Tuesday, April 8, 1952

10:00 a.m. Call to order by Dr. Charles A. Lory, General Chairman of
the Governor's Committee.

Introduction of Mr. Dave Mathias, Deputy State Engineer,
Monte Vista, Session Chairman.

Invocation -- Reverend Herbert Melville, Pastor First
Presbyterian Church, Monte Vista.

10:20 a.m. Early History of Irrigation in Colorado and the Doctrine
of Appropriations--Judge A. W. McHendrie, Pueblo.

11:20 a.m. Development of Water Administration in Colorado--M. C.
Hinderlider, State Engineer of Colorado, Denver.

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12:20 p.m. Recess for Lunch.

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2:00 p.m. Call to Order and Introduction of Fred Christensen, San
Luis Valley Pioneer, Session Chairman.

Invocation--

2:20 p.m. Address by His Excellency Governor Dan Thornton.

3:30 p.m. Poudre Valley Contributions to Colorado Irrigation
Practice--John C. McKinnon, Associate Professor of
History, Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical College,
Fort Collins.

4:20 p.m. Adjourn for the Day.

Wednesday, April 9

10:00 a.m. Call to order by General Chairman Lory.

Introduction of President N. William Newsom, Adams State
College, Session Chairman.

Invocation--Reverend Joe Medina, Spanish Presbyterian
Church, Alamosa.

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10:20 a.m. Possibilities of Ditch Consolidations in the Future--
Royce J. Tipton, Consulting Engineer, Denver.

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11:20 a.m. Underground Water Resources of Colorado--William E. Code,
Irrigation Engineer, Colorado Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Fort C611ins. .

12:20 p.m. Recess for Lunch.